In May 2014, 40 armed members of the Right Sector allegedly tried to gain access to the power plant area.[2] The men were stopped by the Ukrainian police before entering into Enerhodar. The real intentions of the armed members are unclear as the Right Sector claimed they had, "no plans to storm the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant."[3]

The Zaporizhia power plant is located around 200 km away from the Anti-Terrorist-Operation (ATO) zone, where fighting has become very severe in 2014. On 31 August 2014, a Greenpeace expert, Tobias Münchmeyer, expressed concerns the plant could be hit by heavy artillery from the fighting.[4]

November 2014 accident and resulting rolling blackouts throughout Ukraine[edit]